DESPITE efforts to improve its image abroad, the United States has just suffered a damaging global propaganda defeat. Unfortunately, some of the wounds were self-inflicted. Three weeks ago, the ...

In the central Iraqi city of Fallujah, the joy of pregnancy is overshadowed by dread. For many families, the anticipation of new life is replaced by the fear of what might be born into their arms.

The Pentagon and other U.S. officials at first denied, and later admitted, that troops had used white phosphorus as a weapon against insurgents in Fallujah during that fiercely fought campaign. Its ...

War headlines often focus on missiles, drones, or airstrikes. Yet some weapons spark a different kind of reaction. White ...